Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Valentines Day!

Dan surprised me with a dozen red roses and a box of chocolates on Saturday for Valentines Day! He says that this holiday is for me and I love it!

I surprised him by going down to his work and putting red and white hearts with messages on them taped to the windshield, windows, and on the steering wheel, mirrors, radio, ect. I also took some festive Krispi Kreme doughnuts into him and his co-workers. That night I gave him a new wallet which was badly needed.

I hope that all women know how loved and appreciated they are!

Friday, February 12, 2010

Upcoming Trip!

My parents announced a couple of weeks ago that they are kidnapping all of my sisters and I which equals 7 of us girls and taking us on a Nauvoo Church History trip in celebration of their birthdays in March and before they leave on their 4th mission the end of April. They will be serving in the Martin Handcart Wyoming mission for 6 months.

We will be going to Nauvoo March 7-13.

I am so excited to be going! I appreciate all the hard work that my parents have put in to plan for this fun trip. I know we'll all be riding in a huge van--it will be like old times when we were all in the station wagon traveling to Disneyland or Yellowstone.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Doing detective work and finding family=Geneaology

How many of you love doing detective work?

In the last month, I have enjoyed finding over 40 of my husband's relatives and linking them into their proper families, and finding some that belong to his mom's line, too. There is still a ton more to do and I look forward to the challenge.

It has been exciting and interesting to find out what I can about them through the internet, family records, old census',marriage and death records, others' family trees that mention the relative, and going up to the geneaology library to find or verify information. I have found some great resources on the internet.

If you have never done family history, it can be addicting. Give it a try! You might find someone you're related to that you never knew about and they can officially become part of your family.